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Everett Sloane

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AI data center power demand just hit 29.6 gigawatts — roughly what it takes to light the entire state of New York at peak

America’s largest grid operator just warned it has ‘years, not decades’ to restructure as AI devours power — the system serving 65 million bracing for shortfalls by 2027

Amazon just reserved an entire nuclear plant in Pennsylvania for the next 17 years — locking in 2 gigawatts to power its hungriest AI data centers

Three advanced U.S. reactors are racing to flip the switch before year-end — small modular plants built to quadruple the power pouring into the country’s AI server farms

Forecasters say the southern Plains will reload with tornadoes, hail, and damaging wind by Friday — a second outbreak loading just as the holiday storms drain off

NOAA’s Atlantic hurricane season officially starts Monday — and forecasters are already watching the Eastern Pacific’s first tropical disturbance with days to go before naming

AccuWeather now forecasts 5.5 to 8 million acres will burn across the U.S. this year — one of the worst wildfire outlooks in a generation

Semeru just sent gray ash plumes a kilometer into the sky over Indonesia — daily eruptions now drifting across villages with no sign of slowing

Mayon’s pyroclastic flows are still racing 3.8 kilometers down the mountain — 290,000 Filipinos still sheltering as the eruption stretches into its longest run on record

Drought now grips 61% of the country after the driest spring on record — stretching from California through the Rockies into the Plains as peak fire season looms

A strong cold front will slam into the South behind the Memorial Day storms — knocking temperatures 20 degrees below normal deep into Texas and Louisiana

Severe thunderstorms with damaging wind and large hail will rake the Missouri Valley and Siouxland tonight — forecasters warn the storms will reload across the Plains tomorrow

Microsoft’s massive AI data center push just collided with its own clean-power goals — the company now burning through climate promises to keep servers online

The world’s biggest fusion reactor just got its 1,000-ton ‘beating heart’ — the U.S. just delivered the final piece of the magnet that will spark ITER into life

Flash flooding will swamp the Memorial Day drive home from the Gulf Coast into the upper Ohio Valley — washing out highways across a dozen states

A triple-digit heat dome is building over the Plains this week — Phoenix and Death Valley climbing back toward 115°F with dozens of daily records on the line

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